Re: OT: TV converter boxes

On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:43:43 -0700) it happened Joerg
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So yeah, those commissions can talk all day long. We've already got 1080
lines on terrestrial TV. Do you?

We will perhaps not even get HD on terrestrial, and who cares.


Well, nearly all the sports fans out here do care. Two things matter:
Who's got the biggest honking truck and who's got the biggest honking
flat screen TV :-)


So, what did you say the pixels of _your_ 'HD' TV were? 1920x1080?
I thought you had something less?


FYI a well know very popular German station recently decided to stop
HD transmissions on sat too (in German):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/suche/ergebnis?rm=result;q=prosieben;url=/newsticker/meldung/103498/;words=ProSieben
The motivation is interesting too.


HDTV in Europe has a habit of fizzling. Happened before with the analog
version. It's a very different market when compared to America.

Err, behind? Quote from your post: "... bislang sind nur circa 150.000
TV-Haushalte in der Lage, Sat.1 und ProSieben in HD-Qualität zu
empfangen ..." which meeans that so far only 150000 households are able
to receive and display HDTV in the German-speaking parts of Europe.

Because those LCD TV sets with 1920x1080 are so rare.


Now
that is completely different here. Pretty much everybody owns at least
one HDTV set. Well, maybe in reality the credit card company owns it.

Not 1920x1080 I think.

And now you are exagerating anyways, most people have the boxes so they can use
their old analog 1958 CRTs ;-)
The voucher they need, as they cannot even afford a new CRT.
Especially now gas is so expensive.

;-)

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